online portals

Digital entry points

Online portals are websites that serve as gateways to a collection of resources or services—news, email, search, personalized content—all gathered in one place.

The term rose with early internet hubs like Yahoo and AOL that aimed to be a user's starting point for everything online.

Now portal often describes any site aggregating specialized content: a patient portal for medical records, an employee portal for HR services.

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